This month, SJSU SAASC is highlighting Berkeley-based community archive, Freedom Archives. Freedom Archives is “a non-profit educational archive dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of historical audio, video and print materials documenting progressive movements and culture from the 1960s to the 1990s” (Freedom Archives, n.d.). Freedom Archive has an especially rich collection on the Black

The Majazz Project is an archival platform and record label focused on reissuing Palestinian cassette and vinyl albums and field recordings, with a particular focus on sounds from the 1960s-1990s. Founded by Mo’min Swaitat, a London-based Palestinian actor, playwright, archivist, and filmmaker, the Majazz Project seeks to apply archival practice as a decolonial methodology and

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.  Kimberly Villafuerta Barzola grew up in Salem, Massachusetts, and has spent most of her life in and around Boston. She graduated from Boston University with a self-designed major in Agrarian Studies, combining her interests in history, environmental justice, and rural farmworker community organizing. Currently, Kim works